• partial_accumen
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        291 month ago

        Not an impact drill, a hammer drill.

        An impact driver would impart rotational shocks, which is bad enough. A hammer drill imparts straight-ahead shocks into the drill hole, which if we’re talking shock to the cabinet holding spinning hard drives would be murder on them. These are typically used to drill through things like multiple feet/cm of concrete. Watch the drill bit in this animation punch into the hole and back out with the hammer action. It happens much faster in real life of course, probably 5-10 times a second I’d guess

        This is apparently the type of drill this guys used.

      • @BassTurd@lemmy.world
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        41 month ago

        I wouldn’t say impact drill, but to me it’s like driving down the hwy, seeing an oncoming car in the other lane and thinking, “if I just jerked the wheel, it would be catastrophic”. It’s never something I’d actually entertain, but the thought has certainly flew by. I think there’s an actual term for that. But yea, that’s how I feel about just destroying drives in a data center. This guy was just nuts enough to do it.

        • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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          101 month ago

          Usually I just say “hey boss I have an appointment” and leave. Nobody has ever called me on not charging it to stick time.

    • slazer2au
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      101 month ago

      People email The Register with their stories then they rewrite it into these articles once a week.

    • alaphic
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      A story that never happened not actually written by an AI…Yea, I’m pretty sure we’re just in literal hell at this point